Apocalipsis 21:1-2, Apocalipsis 21:27, Apocalipsis 21:6-8 NVI

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Revelation 21:1-7

Revelation THE NEW JERUSALEM ON THE NEW EARTH Rev_21:1-7 ; Rev_21:22-27 The ‘new Jerusalem’ can be established only under a ‘new heaven’ and on a ‘new earth.’ The Seer naturally touches on these before he describes it. And the fact that they come into view here as supplying the field for it makes the literal interpretation of their meaning the more probable. If ‘a new heaven and a new earth’ means a renovated condition of humanity, what difference is there between it and the New Jerusalem... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Revelation 21:1-8

“A New Heaven and a New Earth” Revelation 21:1-8 Here is a vision of the new creation. This is the “restitution of all things” to which Peter refers in Acts 3:21 , and the deliverance of creation from the bondage of corruption which Paul anticipates in Romans 8:21 . No words can portray in positive description what that universe will be, and even the inspired writer has to confine himself to negatives . All he does is to name various elements of terror and dread, saying: This shall not be... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Revelation 21:1-27

The endless end of evil has passed before the vision of the seer, and he now observes the resultant order. The holy city appears. Toward a city of God men had looked through long generations. Now it is manifested. God comes to abide with men. There is a new order of things, characterized by laughter without tears, life without death, singing without mourning, content without crying, pleasure without pain. As John beheld the vision he heard a voice saying, "Behold, I make all things new," and... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Revelation 21:1-6

The Alpha and Omega of Creation Genesis 1:1-5 ; Revelation 21:1-6 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Genesis and Revelation contrasted. The Book of Genesis is commonly known as the Book of beginnings. It is there that everything takes its form, and comes into being. The Book of Revelation has been called Palin-genesis, that is, the beginning again. Revelation gives us the finality of everything that was created and made. Genesis is creation; Revelation is the re-creation, or, the consummation of... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Revelation 21:1-27

The Marriage of the Lamb Revelation 19:1-10 ; Revelation 21:1-27 and Revelation 22:1-21 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Old Testament analogies of the coming Marriage in the skies. It is not difficult to find, in both the Old and the New Testaments, delightful foreshadowings of the coming Heavenly nuptials. (1) There is the first marriage in Eden. Eve was the bride typical of the Bride of Christ. Observe the following: Adam was put to sleep; Christ was put to sleep. Adam's side was opened; Christ's... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 21:1

The New Heavens and the New Earth (Revelation 21:1-8 ). ‘And I saw a new Heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away, and the sea is no more.’ We read about the passing away of the first heaven and the first earth in Revelation 20:11. But all is now light. For all things are new and full of righteousness and purity. This is the new heaven and the new earth in which righteousness dwells (2 Peter 3:13), where former things will not be remembered or come to... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 21:2

‘And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.’ See Revelation 21:9-10. This descent is on the new earth, the new creation. The creation of Genesis 1:0 is no more, except in the sense that it has been the prototype of the new creation. The idea is that just as God created the old world and then created man to people it, so now, having created the new unpopulated earth He sends down from Heaven the city of His people... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 21:1-8

Revelation 21:1-Ruth : . ( a) The Distant View of the City. Revelation 21:1 . cf. Isaiah 65:17.— sea is no more: “ To the apostolic age the ocean spoke of separation and isolation. . . . For this element of unrest, this fruitful cause of destruction and death, this divider of nations and churches, there could be no place in a world of social intercourse, deathless life, and unbroken peace” (Swete). [Ultimately this probably goes back to the conception of the sea as God’ s turbulent... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 21:1-27

Revelation 21:1 to Revelation 22:5 . The Vision of the New Jerusalem.— The doctrine of the new heaven and the new earth goes back to Isaiah 65:17, and is derived from the belief that the present world was so corrupt that it could not possibly be the seat of the Messianic kingdom, at any rate in its present condition. The idea was developed in the apocalyptic literature, especially in Ethiopic Enoch, the Apocalypse of Baruch , , 4 Ezra. Some expositors hold that the New Jerusalem was... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 21:1

A new heaven and a new earth; a new and glorious state of things relating to the church. For the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea; for now there was an end to the world, and all the troubles that the people of God had met with in it, as well as the material earth, heaven, and sea, were passed away. This new heaven was prophesied of of old by Isaiah, and more lately by Peter, 2 Peter 3:13. read more